ICO - Information Commissioner's Office

Who are the ICO?

This is the body setup by the UK government to uphold information rights and the manage data protection.

What do the ICO do?

The ICO ensures the data protection act and shortly the GDPR rules are being followed correctly. They uphold information rights which are in the public interest.

The ICO are currently 80% government funded which is set to change shortly to become fully self funded through fines and penalties given to companies for being none GDPR compliant. Therefore with this in mind you should be looking now to become GDPR compliant. One good route to doing this is via Cyber Essentials and the IASME Standard. These two combined would reduce significantly the penalties imposed if an issue were to occur.

Latest News

It has been reported that hackers are trying to break into email accounts within the Scottish parliament (http://www.parliament.scot/). The unidentified hackers (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/hacking) are doing a similar attack to the one that happened against Westminster.
Holyrood ..

It has been reported that customers of the UK financial services company Ffrees (https://www.ffrees.co.uk/login), said they weren’t aware of any breaches until months after the event. 4 months after the event took place a security researcher got in touch with the people affected. The same ..

A potential state sponsored cyberattack that was aimed at 4000+ infrastructure firms has been blamed on a lone Nigerian cyber criminal. The campaign started back in April this year and it has targeted very large international organisations. The organisations are in the manufacturing, oil, gas, b ..